{"id":22,"date":"2010-11-20T16:46:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:46:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-01T23:42:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T04:42:40","slug":"user-agent-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"User Agent Blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was watching some TV shows online while recuperating from Supercomputing, and ran into this:<br \/>\n&#8220;The video you have requested is not available on this device&#8221; in Chromium, normal play in Firefox.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/fp-content\/images\/cbsuseragentdetect_sm.png\" alt=\"cbsuseragentdetect_sm.png\"  title=\"cbsuseragentdetect_sm.png\"  class=\"center\"  width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><br \/>\nApparently, <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/chromium\/issues\/detail?id=62768\" href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/chromium\/issues\/detail?id=62768\">CBS is blocking video on Chrome\/Chromium on Linux<\/a> in a misguided attempt to block GoogleTV devices.  This is why user-agent sensitive web content is bullshit.  Browsers are browsers; if you feel like your business model can&#8217;t deal with the internet, you have a much, much bigger problem than malicious web design can solve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching some TV shows online while recuperating from Supercomputing, and ran into this: &#8220;The video you have requested is not available on this device&#8221; in Chromium, normal play in Firefox. Apparently, CBS is blocking video on Chrome\/Chromium on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=22\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-entertainment","category-general","category-oldblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}